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==Wide-ranging voices== {{more citations needed section|date=July 2015}} {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *[[Adam Lopez]] – E{{music|b}}2 to E♭8 *[[Ariana Grande]]: D3 – E7 *[[Avi Kaplan]]: E{{music|b}}1 – F{{music|#}}5 *[[Axl Rose]]: F1 – B{{music|b}}6.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/top-artists-vocal-range_n_5357698|title=Comparing The Top Artists, Past And Present, By Vocal Range|date=20 May 2014|publisher=HuffPost|access-date=2 March 2020 }}</ref> *[[Beyoncé]] – G#2 to F6 *[[Cher]]: C3 – E6 *[[Clara Butt]]: A2 – B{{music|flat}}5 *[[Daniel Gildenlöw]]: A1 – A5. Top range may be heard on songs such as "Dea Pecuniae", "A Trace of Blood" or "This Heart of Mine"; for low range, "Imago", "Of Dust" and "Beyond the Pale" are good examples. *[[Dimash Kudaibergen]]: F#1 - D8.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://almaty.tv/news/obschestvo/1138-dimash-kudaybergen-priznan-zasludgennym-deyatelem-kazakhstana|title=Димаш Кудайберген признан Заслуженным деятелем Казахстана|date=12 December 2019|publisher=Almaty TV|access-date=10 February 2020|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/the-six-octave-man-from-kazakhstan-coming-to-new-york-2019-10-16-14/|title='The Six Octave Man' from Kazakhstan Coming To New York|publisher=Caspian News|access-date=10 February 2020 }}</ref> *[[Elizabeth Billington]]: A3 – A6.<ref name="Encyclopédie Larousse. Chant">[http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/chant/166738 "Encyclopédie Larousse. Chant"]</ref> *[[Elvis Presley]]: B1 – A5. Elvis' B1 may be heard on the song "Such a Night", and on "Mystery Train" an A5 is reached towards the end. Towards his later career, he developed a rich baritone voice which still mastered the higher register with immense power, such as on "American Trilogy", "[[Unchained Melody]]" or the joking "Little Darlin'".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQUpQQ-4YQ Video demonstrating Elvis' vocal range through the years]</ref> *[[Ewa Podleś]]: A2 – E{{music|flat}}6. *[[Farinelli]]: C3 – C6.<ref>F Haböck, ''Die Gesangkunst der Kastraten'', (Vienna, 1923), p. 209</ref> *[[Freddie Mercury]]: F2 – G#5.<ref name="soto">{{Citation|last=Soto-Morettini|first=D.|title=Popular Singing: A Practical Guide To: Pop, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country and Gospel|year=2006|publisher=A & C Black|isbn=978-0713672664}}</ref> *[[Georgia Brown (Brazilian singer)|Georgia Brown]] – G2 to G10 *[[Isabella Colbran]]: F#3 – E6.<ref name="Encyclopédie Larousse. Chant"/> *[[Lisa Gerrard]]: A2 to F#5.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/831/lisa-gerrard |title=Lisa Gerrard - Significant Low Notes - Significant High Notes |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=11 December 2019|website=The Range Planet|access-date=2 August 2020|url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200802132301/https://therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/831/lisa-gerrard |archive-date=2 August 2020}}</ref> *[[Lucrezia Aguiari]]: C4 – C7.<ref>[http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Aguiari/165736 "Lucrezia Aguiari, dite La Bastardella ou La Bastardina ou Lucrezia Agujari, dite La Bastardella ou La Bastardina. Encyclopédie Larousse"]</ref> {{col-break}} *[[Mado Robin]]: B3 – D7.<ref>Nicholas E. Limansky (Translated from English by Jean-Jacques Groleau): [http://www.abeillemusique.com/CD/Classique/IMV040/3329184684026/INA-Memoire-vive/Mado-Robin-soprano/1918-1960/cleart-2664.html ''Mado Robin, soprano (1918 - 1960)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719142606/http://www.abeillemusique.com/CD/Classique/IMV040/3329184684026/INA-Memoire-vive/Mado-Robin-soprano/1918-1960/cleart-2664.html |date=2011-07-19 }}</ref> *[[Manuel García (tenor)|Manuel García]]: G2 – D5.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gonzague |last=Saint Bris |title=La Malibran |publisher=Belfond |year=2009|page=25 |isbn=978-2-7144-4542-1|language=fr}}</ref> *[[Maria Callas]]: F{{music|sharp}}3 – F6.<ref name="Siff">Ira Siff, « ''[http://www.operanews.com/operanews/templates/content.aspx?id=3627 I vespri siciliani]'' » in ''[http://www.operanews.com/ Opera News]'', March 2008.</ref><ref name="Ardoin 1991">{{cite book |first=John |last=Ardoin |title=The Callas Legacy |publisher=Old Tappen, New Jersey: Scribner and Sons |year=1991 |isbn=0-684-19306-X |url=https://archive.org/details/callaslegacyc00ardo }}</ref><ref name="Dimanche, 2007">''L'Invité Du Dimanche'', ''The Callas Conversations, Vol. 2'' [DVD] 2007, EMI Classics.</ref> In his review of Callas's June 11, 1951 concert in [[Florence]], music critic Rock Ferris of ''[[Musical Courier]]'' said, "Her high E's and F's are taken full voice."<ref name="lowe">David A. Lowe, ed (1986). Callas: As They Saw Her. New York: Ungar Publishing Company. {{ISBN|0-8044-5636-4}}.</ref> In a 1969 French television interview with Pierre Desgraupes on the program ''L'invité du dimanche'', [[La Scala]]'s [[maestro]] [[Francesco Siciliani]] speaks of Callas's voice going to high F.<ref name="Dimanche, 2007"/> *[[Maria Malibran]]: E{{flat}}3 – E6.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gonzague |last=Saint Bris |title=La Malibran |publisher=Belfond |year=2009|pages=37 and 104 |isbn=978-2-7144-4542-1|language=fr}}</ref> *[[Mariah Carey]]: F{{music|sharp}}2 – F{{music|sharp}}8. Carey has hit an F{{music|sharp}}2 while singing "You and I" live and an F{{music|sharp}}8 while swimming with a dolphin, making her vocal range exactly six octaves and one of the biggest in popular music history. *[[Michael Jackson]]: E{{flat}}2 – B♭6 *[[Prince (musician)|Prince]]: A1 – G7 *[[Tim Buckley]]: F♯2 – A5 *[[Tim Storms]]: G{{music|sharp}}−5 – G{{music|sharp}}5 *[[Yma Sumac]]: her range was said to be "well over four octaves"<ref>Ellen Highstein: 'Yma Sumac (Chavarri, Emperatriz)' [http://www.grovemusic.com Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy. (Accessed 8 August 2006)]</ref> and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak. From B2 to C{{music|sharp}}7<ref>Clarke Fountain, "Yma Sumac: Hollywood's Inca Princess (review). Allmovie, reproduced in the ''New York Times''. 1992. [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=211369]</ref><ref>David Richards, "The Trill of a Lifetime; Exotic Singer Yma Sumac Meets a New Wave of Fans." The ''Washington Post'', March 2, 1987, STYLE; PAGE B1. Accessed August 6, 2006, via Lexis Nexis, [http://web.lexis-nexis.com]</ref> {{col-end}}
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